This post is sponsored by Samsung Business. All thoughts and opinions are my own. Digital signage commanded an impressive share of mind when it didn’t have to compete with omnipresent mobile devices. It was new. It was exciting. It was sexy and compelling. Today, we seem to have entered an age where we walk through public spaces with our heads down …
Why More Businesses Should Be Pursuing Hybrid Cloud
The hybrid cloud combines a public cloud provider with an organization’s private cloud platform. Because the two halves operate independently of one another, it’s possible to store proprietary data on the private cloud while placing noncritical information on the public one. The two systems, although stand-alone, can still communicate through an encrypted connection. This platform duality makes the hybrid cloud …
Gadgets Over Toys: Gen Z to Become the Next Data Mecca for Marketers?
When we talk about young professionals shaking things up in the workplace, we often talk about millennials. When we talk about consumers shaping tech trends with their purchases, we often talk about millennials. This is for good reason—after all, their growth as a generation has meant a lot for big data. There’s a new group of up-and-comers, though, that may …
Big Data: Solving Business Problems One at a Time
I’ve posted in the past about the big data boom and the little data revolution, and the conversation is still relevant. Of course, data in any quantity is an asset—no, a necessity—to the business world, and you’d be hard pressed to find anyone to argue that point. But big data specifically, defined as “the ever-expanding structured, unstructured and semi structured …
Using Video to Improve Customer Service Interactions
Most consumers don’t write home—or write on the internet—about receiving phenomenal customer service. But boy they sure do if they’ve had a bad one! Were the products, services or personnel unsatisfactory? If that’s the case, consumers get talking (or typing), and fast. Negative reviews can appear anywhere online, popping up on social media and in general search results. One bad …
How the Digital Economy Is Changing Future Of Business #Cloudtalk
Hosts Brian Fanzo & Daniel Newman discuss a wide range of topics ranging around the future of work, cloud computing and technologies impact on today’s digital business. Follow hashtag #CloudTalk on twitter to join the conversation! #Cloudtalk Tweets Live Thursday at Noon ET! Watch the replay below and see the questions for the twitter chat listed below the Blab video! Twitter …
Fear Not the Digital Vortex: Why Businesses Must Evolve
A recent report titled “Digital Vortex: How Digital Disruption Is Redefining Industries” from the Global Center for Digital Business Transformation predicted that 4 in 10 incumbent leaders across all industries will fall victim to the digital vortex in the next 5 years. But what is the “digital vortex?” It is, as Joseph M. Bradley explained in Cisco’s official blog, “the …
Sensor Data Connecting Mobile Users and Content Seamlessly
This post is sponsored by Samsung Business. All thoughts and opinions are my own. It’s safe to say that it would be rough existing in today’s society without communicative technology. We need our devices and our data in order to work, to collaborate, and to connect—now more than ever. The Internet of Things (IoT) is making that happen, sharing data between …
Hybrid Cloud: The Public and Private Cloud Mash-Up and its Benefits
Many organizations have adopted at least some public cloud solutions for the convenience, scalability, and affordability they offer—but security is a common hang-up, particularly for companies that handle sensitive or heavily regulated information. Having full control over dedicated servers is one benefit of building a private cloud—infrastructure that’s used by just one organization—but many businesses don’t have the budget or …
Enterprise Video Must Be as Easy as Your Apps
I’ll confess to something I’m sure many of you will relate to: I frequently communicate with my colleagues over Google+ Hangouts. However, I do prefer an enterprise-grade video tool when for important business conversations with a clients. Proprietary conversations, like those with, say, clients or your CFO need to have a high level of security built into them. And that’s …